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January 2012
The Archives
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01.28.12Greetings from ComavilleBack from Belturbet for a three day breather before returning to work with Kevin McCann on Coma next week. Auditions very interesting. Writing for radio is a whole other thing. You're finding words for the larynx, not the page. Meanwhile, our review of Alex MacLeod's short story collection Light Lifting is in today's Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0128/1224310843914.html The loneliness of the long distance writer...
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01.22.12Belturbet here we comeOff to Beturbet for a week to work on Coma with Mr Kevin McCann. Rewrites and auditions. Keep her lit. Meanwhile... http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/18/willpower-roy-baumeister-john-tierney-review Will Self on internet psychosis
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01.19.12Stand up, MargaretTook ourselves off to see The Iron Lady last night (and not 'cos we thought it was an Iron Man sequel). Meryl played a blinder. But why devote half the film to Alzheimer's hallucinations while skimming over Thatcher's rise to power, the hunger strikes, the battles with the trade unions & the miners, the Big Money machinations? The years '84 to '89 were dispacthed in a 60-second collage. It's not often we say this, but the film could've been a good hour longer, and significantly more complex, a la Ollie's Nixon... Iron Lady trailer
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01.18.12Broadcast from the long grass…Well friends, it's been a fast few months in the Revelatorium. Apologies for sporadic blogging, but the latter half of 2011 was heavy harvesting and sowing season, and a man cannot serve too many masters. Progress report in a nutshell: the Rev Murphy relocated to a 400-year-old house in the country in October (took a while to sort out tech specs, but we're all better now). The second novel is completed pending editorial notes. It's called Shall We Gather at the River and is due for publication by Faber & Faber in February 2013. Also in the works: the first ...